How to Make Virgin Coconut Oil – Cold Pressed

Hot methods apply extreme pressure or high heat to extract the oil from the nut. Cold methods obtain oil without applying heat or pressing the coconut meat mechanically, hence the more common term “cold pressed”. While many Virgin Coconut Oil found in the market claim to be cold pressed, the oil you buy may have been heated after extraction to hasten the lowering of the moisture (water) content.

How To Make Your Own Cold Pressed Virgin Coconut Oil

First of all you must get and select a very mature coconut. You can start at two or three coconuts. This is very important because if you choose a young or immature coconut, you will not get enough coconut oil.

Then you must grate the coconut meat or you can ask the someone to do it.

Try to find a big jar with wide mouth. Then extract the coconut milk from the grated coconut by putting a handful in a piece of cloth or “katsa”. Wrap and wring the katsa to extract the milk.

When you have finished extracting the milk, leave it for 24 hours in the jar in an isolated place. After 24 hours, scoop the curd with a spoon on the top until you see the oil. Then slowly scoop the virgin coconut oil in a clean jar or bottle. Now you have it. A home made virgin coconut oil !

There is a better option, you can freeze the coconut milk after 24 hours so you won’t have to scoop the oil since the curd and oil are already hardened, it is easy for you to separate the curd and the oil.

While virgin coconut oil has been documented to help alleviate, ease, protect against and even cure many ailments, it is still vital that the individual maintain a healthy lifestyle, exercise regularly, eat a balance diet of the right kind of food, and drink lots of water.

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There are 23 Comments.

I have tried to produce the vigin coconut oil but end up boiling it because I was not seeing any oil but just the milk and water, and I Don’t have a refrigerator to put it so how do I carry out this task with out boiling please I need your response

hi Dear Ivy, the most important ingredient into vco is lauric acid & will evaporate in 60 oC, so if you heated vco you’ll loss lauric acid from vco. The reason your vco a little sour is water content’s still high so your vco easily oxidized & make smell like that. 🙂

I have a problem with this way. After I extracted coconut oil, the smell has a little sour. When I made VCO by heating process, the coconut oil has coconut smell. How can I get coconut oil with coconut smell by cold pressed?

Dear Manny,
I am going to try to go into VCO processing the fermentation way, Is there any information you can share or a website where I can go to help me in my new endeavor. Thank you so much for your help.

I am interested in Virgin Coconut Oil and Coconut Cooking Oil.
Initially will buy for export and later planning to go into Agriculture coconut farming (big plantation with oil processing plant). If there is any good opportunities, please forward information to my email address. Thank you.

Hi…am glad that the DA had sent me this link…that i may be able to post what we are really looking for now,I am inviting anyone specially Christians who has a burden to help Christians in poverty.I and my group are looking for a Christian financer or capitalist to join our venture as we are trying to produce VCO for a cause,..actually this is not just business but a vision too.We have the market or buyers the procedures,manpower(workers are all Christians),location,raw material and everything except the finance,we can talk about the profit sharing and other business detail,if in case you are interested,you can reach me out thru celphone just dial 09109874951/09159390823 thank you and God Bless Us!!!

Hello Ms. Rina.
I would like to have a chance to visit your farm & facility one day. I have inherited a small area of coconut plantation in visayas from my grandfather. The problem is, I was born & raised in Manila & don’t really have any knowledge in the coco business. My lolo used to run the farm when he was still alive, they just usually sell the copras to middlemen which most of the time are earning more than us & all the people who have worked so hard in our land.. I would like to maximize the use of all our cocos, learn about vco’s, cooking oils, coco sugar & everything about the tree of life. I really want to learn so I could also help the people around our land who also farms coconut trees. Most of the people in our province are farmers who lacks proper education, so they end up in the same situation. I would like to help & bring change to my mom’s motherland.. I hope this letter gets to you or anyone who could be a blessing to teach & help me.. In God’s faith..

Hi, I want your help, i can produce 1000 to 1500 kilos a week of virgin coconut oil, located in Lucena City, Philippines, and i dont have a serious buyer of my product. the VOC has no brand, no nutritional fact, no laboratory test, but im sure it pure, filter, pasturized and extract properly.i used expeller in extracting the coconut milk after newly grated matured coconuts, and im selling it cheap, not retail, bottled in 6 ltrs per bottle new plastic clear container. my asking price in (US$ 6.00 per liter), US$36.00 per bottle. all i want is to buy my VOC minimum of 2,000 liters every 15 days, twice a month, contineously, because i can not hire and stop my employee. FOB Manila,Philippines. Buyers are welcome to visit my working place. i welcome also buyers or partner who want to finance or joint venture and also anybody interested can email me [email protected] or [email protected] , THANKS, Truly Yours, . . . . . . EVA.

@Eva Sanchez Malaguit Po
I think you also need to use the internet technology on promoting your products. Start joining the Filipino Entrepreneur Community for now and then try other networking sites like facebook.

Hello Ms. Eva!
I would like to have a chance to visit your farm & facility one day. I have inherited a small area of coconut plantation in visayas from my grandfather. The problem is, I was born & raised in Manila & don’t really have any knowledge in the coco business. My lolo used to run the farm when he was still alive, they just usually sell the copras to middlemen which most of the time are earning more than us & all the people who have worked so hard in our land.. I would like to maximize the use of all our cocos, learn about vco’s, cooking oils, coco sugar & everything about the tree of life. I really want to learn so I could also help the people around our land who also farms coconut trees. Most of the people in our province are farmers who lacks proper education, so they end up in the same situation. I would like to help & bring change to my mom’s motherland.. I hope this letter gets to you or anyone who could be of great help in God’s faith..